1520 playing music [2019]

[Radio-Bored-Op]

Not a huge deal.. but an interesting discovery:

way early on Saturday A.M. [prior to 7am]
there was music, Queen bohem.Rhasp....
and an outro by someone who was experienced
but was trying for amateur hour....

7am, TOH stated the following is paid programming
no, I was not dreaming as I was on the 400 traveling into buffalo

 

[WJPYFM]

Also there is a country music with comedy bits thrown in from 7am-9am which is not bad. Then back to ESPN noise. Dear Entercom, please do something with this station! Buffalo does not listen to ESPN radio! The ratings show that too.

 

[Mike Sheridan]

Also there is a country music with comedy bits thrown in from 7am-9am which is not bad. Then back to ESPN noise. Dear Entercom, please do something with this station! Buffalo does not listen to ESPN radio! The ratings show that too.

KB comes in great after midnight especially this time of year in North Carolina. If they started playing music Country or Oldies...whatever, I'd listen. Even a local lighthearted talk show would be okay.

ESPN - Snooze fest!

 

[TVEngineerArk]

KB has been dead and buried for decades now. It fits Entercom's current plans just the way it is which is ownership to prevent anyone else from owning it and creating more competition for an increasingly smaller pie. It's a sad reality of the AM band (and even FM signals in some cases since the same argument could be made for WLKK) nowadays but Entercom is hardly alone with the way they have chosen to run things so it's hard to blame them.

 

[tbolt909]

KB has been dead and buried for decades now. It fits Entercom's current plans just the way it is which is ownership to prevent anyone else from owning it and creating more competition for an increasingly smaller pie. It's a sad reality of the AM band (and even FM signals in some cases since the same argument could be made for WLKK) nowadays but Entercom is hardly alone with the way they have chosen to run things so it's hard to blame them.

AM is totally dead in most markets. For a brief time around 2005, KB was Oldies. Entercom quickly jettisoned it(likely because it was taking upper demos away from WBEN). The current Sports programming is now just used as filler and to carry games that WGR can't air.

The current ALT format on WLKK has been a major bust. Corporate probably feels that it's not worth the effort to even try something else at this point. The signal has limitations and "creating compelling content" is not a priority...

 

[Yeziknoradio]

KB has been dead and buried for decades now. It fits Entercom's current plans just the way it is which is ownership to prevent anyone else from owning it and creating more competition for an increasingly smaller pie. It's a sad reality of the AM band (and even FM signals in some cases since the same argument could be made for WLKK) nowadays but Entercom is hardly alone with the way they have chosen to run things so it's hard to blame them.

I have to go against my best interests and wonder if an all comedy radio station (still with no local content) would bring in better numbers for 1520 than what they're currently airing on that station...

 

[SirRoxalot]

It's pretty much a dumping ground for sports content that WGR-AM doesn't have room for or doesn't want to run. It also serves as a flanker for 'GR-55. It's sad to see that old blowtorch reduced to its current state, but that's the way of AM in the corporate world these days.